{"id":272249,"date":"2025-11-09T01:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T01:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/272249\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T01:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T01:41:08","slug":"claressa-shields-offers-to-train-sydney-sweeney-after-actress-reveals-boxing-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/272249\/","title":{"rendered":"Claressa Shields offers to train Sydney Sweeney after actress reveals boxing dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney Sweeney may not need to look into getting a trainer since Claressa Shields is open to the role.<\/p>\n<p>Following <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/culture\/trending\/news\/sydney-sweeney-open-get-ring-real-amid-christy-film-release\/3fad824d20730951797f2996\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sweeney&#8217;s reveal<\/a> that she wouldn&#8217;t mind going into the ring for a charity bout and not just playing a boxer screen, Shields is offering to help the actress achieve her goals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think every woman should experience one,&#8221; Shields told <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/11\/08\/claressa-shields-offers-advice-to-sydney-sweeney-boxing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TMZ<\/a> in an interview published on Nov. 8. &#8220;Win, lose or draw. But if she played Christy Martin and I heard she did MMA back in her younger years &#8230; hell, why not?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If she needs some help training, girl, call me! I give you some G.W.O.A.T. tips.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shields is more than qualified to help the Euphoria\u00a0actress as she is the two-time undisputed champion in two weight classes (Junior Middleweight and Middleweight), two-time Olympic gold medalist (2012 and 2016, and she also holds major world titles in light middleweight, middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight, and heavyweight, to name a few. Shields also recently earned an\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/fannation\/boxing\/claressa-shields-scores-landmark-8-million-fight-deal-with-unique-twist\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$8 million fight deal<\/a> with Wynn Records and Salita Promotions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sweeney is currently playing Christy Martin in an autobiography about the boxing icon&#8217;s life.\u00a0Christy was released into theaters on Nov. 7.\u00a0The Echo Valley star had to train intensely for the role and even <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/culture\/trending\/news\/sydney-sweeney-30-pound-weight-gain-christy-martin-role\/be6e1449cb0011951f834e94\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">gained 30 pounds <\/a>during the training.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a nutritionist work with me as well as a weight trainer and a boxing trainer,\u201d Sweeney explained during an interview at the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/sydney-sweeney-christy-30-pounds-bruises-boxing-scenes-1236510046\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Variety<\/a>\u00a0Toronto Film Festival\u00a0Studio.\u00a0\u201cWe upped my calorie intake, and I started taking a lot of protein shakes and supplements and eating everything. I ate a lot of Smuckers, a lot of PB and J sandwiches, milkshakes, kind of just constantly always eating because we were so active.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was constantly burning it all off at the same time. So keeping it all up was quite a challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Christy is out now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More lifestyle news:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Sweeney may not need to look into getting a trainer since Claressa Shields is open to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-272249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}